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Wire is located in Switzerland. Outside the EU.

Technically yes but Switzerland does subscribe to most EU legislation in order to join the internal market. They're a lot more "EU" than the UK is now.

... You're suggesting Switzerland is subject to EU surveillance laws? Instead of the ones they put in planning in January?

They generally agree to pretty much everything yes because they're afraid of losing internal market access. It just takes a while longer because they have to approve each new thing individually.

I do use Switzerland as an exit for my vpn though yes.

This cope is officially dead now, not even Proton is believing Switzerland anymore. The pressure has gotten enough that they had to freeze all Swiss investment and start the process of moving key infrastructure to another country (I don't remember which, but it's the one Mullvad is at).

Truth is, Euros don't care about privacy. The endgame will probably be to host this stuff in the third world or something, like pirates do

It's not "cope".

Switzerland created a new set of surveillance laws in January, that far exceed anything inside the EU. Which means that EU laws are irrelevant, when talking about a company inside Switzerland - you should be talking about what they actually use!

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